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    <h1>
        What is Publish to Photo Frame?</h1>
    <p>
        Publish to Photo Frame is a plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery that makes it
        easy to copy your photos to a digital photo frame.</p>
    <p>
        Have you got a digital photo frame? Does it use SD cards? Compact Flash? A USB stick?
        If it doesn't stream photos and movies from your home server, you probably get frustrated
        loading fresh content onto it.</p>
    <p>
        I did, so I wrote this plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery that makes it easy
        to resize your photos and copy them to the media used for your digital photo frame.</p>
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        Using it</h2>
    <p>
        Here's how to start publishing your photos to your digital photo frame:</p>
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        <li>Install <a href="http://download.live.com/photogallery">Windows Live Photo Gallery</a>(there's
            no support for movies yet).</li>
        <li>Install <b>Publish to Photo Frame</b>. You can grab the latest release from <a
            href="http://publishtophotoframe.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=36554">
            the download page</a>.</li>
        <li>You'll find the plug-in under <b>Publish &gt; More Services</b>.</li>
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        Other Uses</h2>
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        All this plug-in actually does is use Windows Live Photo Gallery's built-in resizing
        logic, and then copy the resulting files to a defined output directory. It's designed
        to be used with digital photo frames that use removable media, but it'll also work
        with digital photo frames that appear as USB mass storage. If you choose the &quot;Original
        size&quot; option, you can also use it for transferring selected photos to removable
        media, so that you can take them to your high-street photo print shop.</p>
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        Background</h2>
    <p>
        I've just bought a digital picture frame for my mother (don't worry, she won't be
        reading CodePlex, so it's not going to ruin the surprise!). It uses an SD card to
        hold the photos, so I'm going to preload an SD card with some pictures of her grandson.
        The resolution's only 800 x 600, and it was time-consuming copying and resizing
        all of the multi-megapixel photos from my collection, so I thought I'd write a plug-in
        for Windows Live Photo Gallery that resized and copied selected photos to the SD
        card.</p>
    <p>
        One weekend later, version 1.0 was finished. Enjoy.</p>
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